Well, i think i understand what happens (through i am not sure) - i was upgrading 9.3 to 9.4 - they're installed in different slots, so i just istalled two postgresql's in one time. You are upgrading 9.4 to 9.4 - so they are in one slot and can not be installed in one time.
But then yes, one can't upgrade the base. 2014-11-10 17:59 GMT+05:00 <[email protected]>: > Well, I found the old binaries in my backups and did the deed, the only > problems, was that the old data directory did not contain any .conf > files, so I copied the new ones into the old data directory and it was > then happy. I m not sure what happened to the .conf files in the old > data directory, but they had not been there for quite a while, so maybe > this was a problem with the arlier beta. Very strange but it looks > good. > > Thanks for your help. > > Vladimir Romanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Well... then we need someone, who is more professional, since AFAIK > > multiple postgresql's can be on one system in several slots. Maybe (as it > > is beta, slots are the same, therefore new deletes old and vice versa)? > > > > 2014-11-10 16:47 GMT+05:00 <[email protected]>: > > > > > What it does then is delete the beta3 and give me only beta2. This is > > > what I had done to fix my original problem, I can show you the build > log > > > for beta3 if that would help. I am using gentoo-unstable, but that > > > should be obvious. > > > > > > Vladimir Romanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > You updated your beta2 with beta3. Now you can add beta2 again by > emerge > > > > =dev-db/posgresql-9.4-beta2 (or something like) > > > > > > > > 2014-11-10 16:36 GMT+05:00 <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > Well, after the emerge, no sign of beta2 anywhere, I have the > directory > > > > > /usr/lib64/postgresql-9.4/ with the beta3 binaries and that is > all, is > > > > > there a problem with the ebuilds or something? > > > > > > > > > > Vladimir Romanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Well, emerge it again :). You can have two postgresql-servers in > > > > > different > > > > > > slots. > > > > > > > > > > > > 2014-11-10 16:21 GMT+05:00 <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > However, when I emerge beta3, beta2 is gone, so this is my > problem. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Vladimir Romanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Yes. You emerge both beta2 and beta3, then run pg_upgrade for > > > beta3, > > > > > > > > provide BOTH binaries to it, it converts the base. Then you > can > > > > > delete > > > > > > > > beta2. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > 2014-11-10 16:04 GMT+05:00 <[email protected]>: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi. I have a puzzle regarding upgrading postgresql. In my > > > recent > > > > > > > world > > > > > > > > > update I went from 9.4_beta2 to beta3, but when I tried to > > > start > > > > > the > > > > > > > > > server, it complained that the databases were written with > a > > > > > different > > > > > > > > > "catalog version" -- whatever that is, and the pg_upgrade > tool > > > > > requires > > > > > > > > > both old and new binaries to actually upgrade the database. > > > So as > > > > > a > > > > > > > > > temporary measure, I went back to beta2 and things worked > > > again. > > > > > So > > > > > > > > > what the heck are you supposed to do here, I like pg, but > this > > > is > > > > > very > > > > > > > > > strange to me. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The > > > question > > > > > is: > > > > > > > > > How do > > > > > > > > > you spend it? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > John Covici > > > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > Alternatives: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The > question > > > is: > > > > > > > How do > > > > > > > you spend it? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > John Covici > > > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Alternatives: > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question > is: > > > > > How do > > > > > you spend it? > > > > > > > > > > John Covici > > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > Alternatives: > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > -- > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > > > How do > > > you spend it? > > > > > > John Covici > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > Alternatives: > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > > -- > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: > How do > you spend it? > > John Covici > [email protected] > >
